Edwin Dickinson (American,1891-1978)Pink Rocks, Coast, La CrideSigned "EW Dickinson" along right edge, inscribed "La Cride" l.l., inscribed indistinctly and dated "Sanary... 1938" u.l., titled in the catalogue raisonné (see below), with a label from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, affixed to the stretcher bar, labels from Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, Richard York Gallery, New York, and Meredith Ward Fine Art, New York, affixed to the frame backing, and a label from Leigh Morse Fine Arts, New York, affixed to the back of the frame.
Oil on canvas, 28 7/8 x 36 3/8 in. (73.5 x 92.5 cm), framed.
Condition: Gentle canvas rippling near corners, possible retouch l.c.
Provenance: Mr. and Mrs. Ansley W. Sawyer; Mr. and Mrs. Ansley W. Sawyer Jr.; Joanna Sawyer; a private Massachusetts collection.
Literature: Helen Dickinson Baldwin,
The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné, no. 270 (https://www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?catNo=270).
Exhibitions:
Paintings by Edwin W. Dickinson, Georgette Passedoit Gallery, New York, April 11-30, 1938 (as
Coast, Le Cride);
Exhibition of Paintings by Edwin W. Dickinson, Art Museum of Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, October 15-November 5, 1940;
Edwin Dickinson, Cushman Gallery, Houston, Texas, 1958;
Edwin Dickinson. Major Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 20-November 28, 1965 (as
Coast Le Cride);
Realism and Abstraction: Counterpoints in American Drawings, 1900-1940, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, November 12-December 30, 1983 (as
Coast, Le Cride).
Condition
Condition: Framed dimensions: 37 3/4 x 45 x 3 in.
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